Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG through 0.9.3. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function dwg_encode_common_entity_handle_data in common_entity_handle_data.spec.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20914
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in GNU LibreDWG through 0.9.3. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function dwg_encode_common_entity_handle_data in common_entity_handle_data.spec.
osv:CVE-2019-20914
Complete source record
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